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[rapunzelf]

[The girl speaking, looking down into her locket, is very pretty but also looks somehow drained. She's not worn out, other than maybe emotionally, but as far as emotionally goes....]

I find I am grown tired of being here without being able to do aught but heal. Are there any here who would be willing to teach me?

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I think this is what I never knew I needed.

[rapunzelf]

[She blinks a little in some confusion at that. Magic? Uh.]

It need not be... magic. [Her voice is slightly uncertain at the term, she's a little fuzzy still on quite what people mean by it. Besides, Melian's Arts are much more obviously 'magical' than anything Lúthien can do, who after all is only talented more or less as any elf is. In different areas than some, perhaps, but Melian is her mother.]

I was hoping for something that might be used slightly more... proactively than simply the knowledge to heal.

That's my game plan B)

[brainiest]

Oh! Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to assume. I just thought that with healing it was... Magical?

[ She does look sheepish and she bows her head a little before she offers a softer smile. She doesn't want to delve too much, but she does want to help and educate - which is important, really, in her opinion. ]

What sort of thing were you hoping to learn? Maybe I could help.

[rapunzelf]

I've never been entirely sure what magic is, I'm afraid.

[O Lu.]

I'm not sure. Anything that might be helpful. I don't want to be helpless.

[brainiest]

Well, for me, magic is... A part of me. I was born with it and I went to school to learn how to use and control it - and it let's me do almost anything, within reason, of course.

[ Her smile brightens, more friendly now. ]

I don't know how to do anything particularly... Weapon-based, I'm afraid. I haven't quite learned yet.

[rapunzelf]

Yes, but what is it?

[She just has what she can do, that's all! It's perfectly natural. Magic, by contrast, is weird.]

Nor have I - there wasn't ever need at home, and I do not imagine my father would have allowed me.

[brainiest]

Well, the way it's taught in my world... Magic is a force that can alter the fabric of reality at fundamental levels - conjuration, illusions, transfiguring, that sort of thing. We also learn to brew Potions and defend ourselves.

[ She nods her head, looking a little thoughtful. ]

I never needed physical protection, but it seems sensible in this situation, doesn't it? I think there was someone who said they'd be happy to teach us some self-defence, if you'd like that?

[rapunzelf]

But isn't changing the way that things are a thing that anyone can do?

[She shakes her head a little.]

Forgive me, the definition has just always puzzled me. The dwarves have called many things magic, and many of them are very different.

And yes. I'd prefer not to fight, unless I need to, but I would like to know that I could in that need.

[brainiest]

Not necessarily. You can alter things, using one thing and another, or change them using a tool - like bending metal, I suppose. But magic is... It's a whole other level. It's incredibly hard to explain because it's always just been a part of me.

[ She smiles softly, a little tender - she understands the confusion. When she was first told she was a witch, well... ]

I think it's something that's different for everyone. There might be a solid idea of it in each world, but it means something to each person on a level no one else could understand, I suppose.

[ And, as for the fighting? Hermione can appreciate that. ]

Their name was Sir Integra Hellsing. I'm a little too used to fighting, but if something happened to my magic I'd be defenceless.

[rapunzelf]

[She sighs a little.]

My mother has been accused of magic, as has my father, as have I, but what we do is all different. The Enemy in the North has been as well, and what he does is as different from the elves or the valar or the maiar as sunlight is from shadow.

[Oh Hermione if only you knew.]

Hm, maybe I shall ask them, then, if you know where I may find them.

[brainiest]

Magic means something different to everyone, then? Maybe that's worth asking about, seeing what magic means to all of us. It might lead to some interesting results.

[ She nods her head, looking quite pleased with herself. ]

She made a post on the lockets a little while ago, you could try that? And if not sometimes they let us send private messages to people, so that could work too.

[rapunzelf]

Magic as a nonsense word, because people who speak it make no difference. It is like the differences between flowers and stars, and I don't know what else they would call the same.

Mmm, I shall look for it, then!